Jurassic Park

Hello everybody, I didn't know where else to ask this type of question so I decided to ask it here.I kindly ask mods to put this in the appropriate sub-forum if needed. OK,here is the thing,I always wanted to be involved in any kind of scientific researches and try to give my humble contribution to it. Since I was a kid,I planned to became paleontologist,but in my adolescence I developed sever agoraphobia combined with emetophobia that prevented me in achieving that. I never lost my interest toward paleontology and science and I continue to learn about it online since that was my only option. Since I have agoraphobia,it means I have basically unlimited free time and I would like to spend it on something meaningful and useful. I recently discovered by pure accident that online volunteering exists and that people without any experience in field can participate in some projects. I read that Zooniverse is one biggest websites for participation in various citizen science projects and I was wondering how meaningful are those projects to real scientists in reality? From what I managed to found online,It's seems like a useful tool for crowd sourcing mass data that computers have a hard time processing. But is there any real data and useful information that can be obtained by scientists for their researches from participants in this programs? I would really dedicate myself on doing everything I can to do my contribution since I'm having troubles leaving my home and got tons of free time,but I don't want to spend months and months doing something that may not have any real usage to scientific community.If that's the case I'd rather spend that time to expand my knowledge in other areas like geology etc. So,after going into lot of details,I'm coming back to my original question: Does citizen science projects like Zoouniverse have any meaningful impact on real scientific research that would make them important at least to some degree? Everyone's opinion is more than welcome so feel free to write anything,I'd be glad to hear it. Thank you for taking time to read this and have a nice day.

Well,to be honest I don't have a clue how did he manage to get that result since it's impossible to be 147 BILLION Lux per 1m of Moon surface as it would be more bright than a Sun(I don't mean that literally of course). Standard and by ''standard'' I mean when it's full Moon it's only about 0.05-0.1 Lux. From Earth, the apparent magnitude of the full Moon is only about 1/380,000 that of the Sun. That guy likes to show off and he keeps talking how he got ''correct'' results with that calculation,but it's more than too obvious he's lying. He said that he used moonlight brightness (I guess) and inverse square law light intensity and got those ''results'' that shows that Earth's is not cause of eclipse,because if it was,shadows would look much different. And yes,I know that he's dummy to express myself in nicest way possible,but I don't know how to tell him he's results are wrong since I don't have clue how did he calculated that in the first place. He keeps repeating ''inverse square law light intensity'' like he's some kind of Newton reincarnation or something and it's really annoying as hell because I can't tell him his wrong since I'm not sure what's the correct calculation for getting how many Lux is 1m of Moon's surface. I searched online for that calculation and result,but I couldn't find it anywhere. It's only partially explained on some sites and it's quite complicated to understand it since I'm not familiar with those calculations,not to mention that the explanation is in ''pieces'' and not fully explained on one site so it's practically impossible for me to get it right without doing proper study about it.

Hello everybody, I'm sorry for bothering you,but I joined here for one single question and clarification. I would like to know how can I calculate Moon's brightness and correct calculation of it with result if possible? I'm terrible in math and calculations and one guy told me result that is impossible,but I don't get how did he got that result? Here is his calculation: Intensity 1/int 2= (distance 2)^2/(distance 1)^2. 1lux/int 2=0,001^2/384400^2=147 billion lux per 1m of Moon's surface. Can you explain me what did he do wrong and what is the real calculation for it as well as final result since this is obviously impossible. I read that intensity depends a lot because of the phases and it's usually between 0.05-0.1 Lux and that it can reach up to 0.32 Lux during ''Supermoon'' Can you please help me with this since I suck at these kind of calculations and explain me what should I tell him about his calculation that are impossible as well as correct calculation with result? Thank you very much and have a nice day.